# GPT-5.6 Terra vs StarCoder 2 15B

> GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#15); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-6-terra-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Terra scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 15B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-5.6 Terra leads 57.1 to 36.0.
- StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 59.1 | 37.5 |
| Rank | 15 | — |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $12 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 57.1 (#16)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 69.6% | — |
| FrontierCode | 41.3% | — |
| CursorBench | 41.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1520 | — |
| SciCode | 55% | — |
| WeirdML | 78.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1484 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,951 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 40.2 (#23)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 58.2% | — |
| BALROG | 53.2% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 24.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 7,343 | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 60.6 (#19)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.31 | 104.61 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 83.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 48.9% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 51.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 78.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 96.5% | — |
| CritPt | 30% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 54% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1467 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 35% | — |
| DTBench | 93.3% | — |
| LMCA | 55% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 83.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 81.5 (#10)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 86% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 70.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 99.7% | — |
| ProofBench | 74% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1463 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 61.3 (#27)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.3% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 43.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1492 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 47.5 (#10)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1271 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 30.8% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 54.2% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1472 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 54.5 (#42)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1439 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1514 | — |
| LMArena French | 1476 | — |
| LMArena German | 1462 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1420 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1450 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1455 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 76.6 (#38)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1453 | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 44.4 (#64)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1452 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5.6 Terra: 70.4 (#21)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1855 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1451 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5.6 Terra better than StarCoder 2 15B?

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#15); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is GPT-5.6 Terra or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Terra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.1 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Terra and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Terra has 52 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.